A man died near Lower Greenville early Saturday after kidnapping a woman, shooting her in front of police and then barricading himself inside a house, police say.

A SWAT team found Richard Calderon’s body hours later after they stormed the home near Skillman Street and Belmont Avenue.

Police are investigating whether the 39-year-old killed himself or officers fatally wounded him during the initial confrontation. They said preliminary indications are that an officer’s shots did not hit him.

The woman, Virginia Gomez, 45, was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Police didn’t say where she had been shot, but her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

It’s unclear what the relationship was between Calderon and Gomez.

“As best we can tell, they knew each other,” police spokesman Max Geron said.

The ordeal that startled neighbors in the affluent Old East Dallas neighborhood started about 6 a.m. after a woman was taken from a 7-Eleven about three miles away.

Police spotted the woman fleeing from a triplex, but before they could rescue her, the man shoved her to the ground and shot her.

An officer shot at the man as police dragged the woman to safety behind a tree and the gunman retreated into the house.

It’s unclear how long the man was alive during the standoff that followed. Police said they heard gunshots inside the house shortly after it began.

Officers cleared a multiblock area around the building, and the neighborhood was quiet for about five hours before police obtained a warrant to enter the triplex. They set off a stun grenade as they stormed inside and found the man fatally shot.

“It is not clear yet whether or not the suspect is deceased as a result of shots fired by officers [hours earlier] or self-inflicted,” Geron said.

He said the officers involved in the shooting will be placed on leave until detectives determine who fired the fatal shot. Officers are routinely placed on leave after being involved in shootings.

Police said they had not determined who lived in the triplex, which had no one else inside when officers entered. But Geron said there was “no reason to believe that it was a random house.”